Half to peter



(No Model.)

G. T. DUNCAN. BRIDLE OR HALTER.

Patented May 27, 1890.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE TELFOR DUNCAN, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOPETER O. BUTTS, OF SAME PLACE.

BRIDLE OR HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,898, dated May 27,1890.

Application filed February 4:, 1889. Serial No. 298,689. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE TELFOR DUN CAN,a citizen of Canada, a subjectofthe Queen of Great Britain, and residing in Tacoma,

5 Pierce county, Washington Territory,have invented a new and usefulHalter and Bridle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to halters and bridlesj and it consists in cuttingone piece of leather in such a manner as to form the crown-piece,

throat-latch, buckle-chape, and cheek-pieces all in one piece, as willbe hereinafter more fully set forth. 7 p

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a piece ofleather forming the crown-piece, throat-latch, cheek-pieces, and

buckle-chape. Fi g. 2 is a side perspective view of a halter in whichthe piece of leather is used, and Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view ofthe same.

My invention relates more particularly to the peculiar manner in which anarrow piece of leather is cut so as to form the cheek-pieces A A,throat-latch B,croWn-piece O, and buckle- 2 5 chape D. To do this I takea piece of leather as wide as the combined width of the throatlatch andone of the cheek-pieces and slit it longitudinally for twice thedistance of the length of one of the cheek-pieces, the slit commencingnear one end and extending toward the other end the required distance.The leather on one side of slit is wide enough to form the throat-latch,and on the other side it will form the cheek-pieces. A second slit orcut is then made from the middle of the 1ongitudinal slit to the edgeacross the portion forming the cheek-pieces, so as to cut them in two,as shown in Fig. 1. One end of the strap is provided with asemicircularcut or incision, forming a tongue, which, when bent back upon the bodyof the strap, forms the bucklechape D, which is secured to the strap bymeans of a billet-loop E. The opposite end of the strap which forms thecrown-piece is 4 5 provided with a series of small holes c,thr0 ughwhich the tongue of the buckle cl passes and secures the halter to thehead of the animal. After the strap has been prepared as abovedescribed, the endsof the cheek-pieces are secured to the nose-band F,the rear portion of which is looped through a ring G and passed throughanother ring H, to which the halterstrap is fastened.

A chin -strap I is secured to the throatlatch and to the ring G, and thehalter is complete.

If desired, the nose-band can be passed directly through the ring H inthe usual manner, and the ring G can be dispensed with, although Iprefer to use both rings, as then when the animal pulls back thenose-band is drawn tight, and the pain caused by the tightening of theband makes the animal stop pulling back, and thus prevents the breakingof the halter.

In making a halter in this manner there is no waste of leather, as itcan be made entirely out of straight narrow pieces of leather, and itwill save time, as there are but few splices or joints to make. strong,as there are not so many buckles or joints to add to the Weight anddetract from the strength as must be the case in a halter having agreater number of pieces. It will also be easier on the animal, as thesmooth leather will not wear the hair and chafe the skin as much aswould a greater number of splices and buckles, and by making thebuckle-chape D as described a leather loop J is left at the end of thestrap, against which the buckle will rest instead of resting against theanimals head.

Having described my invention, what I claim is A halter consisting ofthe brow-band, cheekpieces, and throat-latch formed from a singlestraight strap, which is slitted longitudinally and one of the divisionscut transversely to form the cheelrpieces, and a buckle-chape at one endof said strap, formed by making a semicircular incision therein, andthen turning back the tongue thus formed and passing its free end underthe billet-loop, a nose-band secured to the ends of the cheek-pieces,and a chin-strap connected with the nose-band and with the throatlatch,substantially as described.

GEORGE TELFOR DUNCAN.

Witnesses: Y

W. H. DOOLITTLE, R. B. LEHMAN.

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